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Delaware is home to fun festivals and year-round events, come discover what’s happening during your visit.

During spring, history comes to life with the family-friendly Dover Days Festival and the season blooms into colorful landscapes at the Mt. Cuba Center Wildflower Celebration. As the summer heats up, the East Coast’s premier music experience, Firefly Music Festival, brings big-name music acts to Dover. Then, summer celebrations continue with Fourth of July in the First State, featuring fireworks, concerts and more.

Fall brings high-flying action at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition, as well as witches and fiddles during the Sea Witch Halloween and Fiddler’s Festival. In October, get a taste of local wineries and breweries during the Delaware Wine and Beer Festival. To round out the year of fun events, during the holiday season, experience the du Pont mansions decked out in their holiday splendor.

Calendar of Events

July 11, 2013

As leader of ’70s British rock legends Mott the Hoople and as a hugely influential solo artist, Ian Hunter is widely revered as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most compelling performers and one of its most articulate songwriters. As the author of such immortal anthems as “All the Way from Memphis,” “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “Cleveland Rocks,” and the voice of such landmark albums as Mott the Hoople’s All The Young Dudes and Mott and…
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July 11, 2013

Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning trio plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies! This performance of Simple Gifts is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation;…
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July 11 – 12, 2013

Outdoor Survivors July 8-12 $200 Ages 9-13 Put survival skills to work in this extreme camp. Hone your tracking, shelter building, fire making skills, and so much more in this survivor camp. This camp includes an overnight at the Nature Center Thursday night. The overnight includes: campfire cooking for Thursday night dinner, Friday breakfast and lunch. Pack those toothbrushes and pajamas! Camp registration starts February 1, 2013. All camps run 8:30-4:00pm. Summer camps offer pre-care from…
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July 11 – September 15, 2013

French Twist, our highly anticipated summer exhibition, features 100 vintage prints from the golden age of French photography, 1910–1940. The exhibition celebrates the variety and inventiveness of native and immigrant photographers working in France in the early 20th century. The selection encompasses Eugène Atget’s lyrical views of Paris streets and gardens, Man Ray’s surrealist experiments, and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s pioneering photojournalism, as well as works…
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July 11 – September 26, 2013

Winterthur’s Farmstand is the place to stop for delicious, locally grown produce from H.G. Haskell’s SIW Vegetables and more. The Farmstand is located in front of the Winterthur Store. Open Thursday afternoons from 2:00 pm–6:00pm through September 26
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July 11 – October 19, 2013

Book a two-hour private climb. Staff will instruct, guide and belay climbers. Helmets, harness and ropes provided. Ages 8 and up; children under 18 must be accompanied by parent. Registration and full payment required at least two weeks in advance.
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July 11 – December 31, 2013

The Centennial Tea features our new centennial tea blend, created especially for the Hotel du Pont’s centennial celebration. This tea is infused with a burst of pineapple, the international symbol of hospitality, to commemorate our commitment for 100 years. Also featured at our Centennial Tea are various blends from the Delaware Art Museum and several DuPont Estates in the Brandywine Valley. Choose from Longwood, Winterthur, Hagley, and Nemours teas. Throughout the year,…
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July 11, 2013 – January 6, 2014

The latest major exhibition at Winterthur delves into how maps in the 18th and 19th centuries they were key to the American experience and became the social glue that bound a young nation into a community. The exhibition features traditional maps on paper rare and interesting map–related objects from Winterthur’s collection, illustrating American's changing interactions with maps.
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July 11, 2013 – March 31, 2014

Seventy-five years ago on October 27, 1938, a brand new material named nylon was announced to the public. Created in DuPont’s labs, nylon replaced silk in the ladies hosiery industry. Nylon was so popular that its early sales created near riots because demand was so high. Hagley’s exhibition will discuss the early development of nylon and its impact on the fashion industry. Exhibition included with admission. The exhibition will be open through March 31, 2014.
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July 11 – August 25, 2013

Join us on Sunday and Thursday evenings this summer for our free Summer Concert Series! Bring a picnic and blanket or lawn chair for ultimate comfort. Our summer line-up consists of something for everyone, from blues and jazz to swing and big band music. This program is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information…
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July 11 – August 29, 2013

The sounds of live music and family entertainment will return to the Riverfront this summer with the Shipyard Summer Concert Series! This free concert series features local musicians and bands from 7PM-8:30PM under the colored cranes at Dravo Plaza which is located on Justison Street next to the Shipyard Shops. Concert attendees are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs or blankets to enjoy entertainment. For more information, the full performance schedule or questions regarding…
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July 11 – September 2, 2013

Photo submissions from members of the Delaware Photographic Society interpret the theme of water in dramatic fashion in a display in the Museum’s patio hallway, leading visitors in to Water’s Extreme Journey. The Delaware Photographic Society is one of the oldest camera clubs in the country and was first organized as the Delaware Camera Club in 1931.
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This exhibit takes visitors on an exciting and important adventure quest for clean water. Experience the watershed as a water drop, exploring first-hand the science behind the water cycle. Water's Extreme Journey was created by world-renowned marine life artist Wyland and Seattle-based Minotaur Mazes.
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July 11 – September 7, 2013

The first and only zip line and treetop adventure course in Delaware, located south of Wilmington and just minutes from I-95 in Bear. Four zip lines take you high over Lums Pond, the largest freshwater pond in Delaware. Overall there are 5 individual sections within the course - rope ladders, 42 exciting crossings including Double Stirrups, and stunning views that take you higher into the forest canopy. The Park also offers biking and hiking trails, a disc golf course,…
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New Sweden at 375—New exhibit in the Willingtown Square Gallery. This year marks the 375th anniversary of the founding of New Sweden, the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River Valley. Despite its brief life, the colony left an indelible mark on the cultural memory of Wilmingtonians and Swedes alike. Now open in the Willingtown Square Gallery, New Sweden at 375 tells the story of this unique colony and the efforts of Delawareans to keep its history alive. Come…
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July 11 – October 27, 2013

When Nathanial Currier, a young businessman in New York City, published a lithograph in 1835 showing Planters Hotel in New Orleans after a fire, it ushered in a new era of pictorial journalism. The print established the firm which was to achieve its greatest fame as "Currier & Ives" after 1857 when James Merritt Ives became a partner. Over the next seven decades, the firm consistently provided the public with images that recorded the breaking news of the day. However, as the…
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